Mountain landscape

It was a lovely day today - at last - so I went for a long walk after lunch. This picture is taken from the hill to the south-east of my village, looking west. The few houses on the lower right edge are the last ones of the village - the house just above centre in the distance is Domaine de Cadables, where they make excellent wine and pottery. I've been there for degustations, and for an evening of paella and jazz in August, and they'll hold an open weekend soon.

The other reason for thinking of mountains is even more significant for me and my family. Today I received my copy of the recently-published book on the area in which Teleri (Chaiselongue) was born: the wild hills of Mynydd Bach in Ceredigion, West Wales. We went there together first in 1973, the year we became a couple. Teleri's nephews, cousins and many other relatives are there still. It's where the ashes of her parents and sister rest.

The book is a magnificent production, a labour of love for the Cymdeithas Hanes Blaenpennal (Blaenpennal History Society), and includes photos of Teleri, her sister, her father, pictures made by her mother, and poems by Teleri, her sister, and her father. It's a project to which she gave her full support. Of course there's much else besides, and it's very fully illustrated, and completely bilingual in Welsh and English.
For those who may be interested, the title is Mynydd Bach - Ei Hanes/Its History, edited by Eirian Jones, and published by the aforementioned Cymdeithas Hanes Blaenpennal. It's available here, and there's another review of it on a blog here.